Secretary general did not immediately confirm trip which Ukrainian foreign ministry says ‘damages UN reputation’; two dead in Zaporizhzhia attack. What we know on day 972
Vladimir Putin, just visible on the left, meets with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, at the Kremlin in Moscow on 26 April 2022.Vladimir Putin, just visible on the left, meets with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, at the Kremlin in Moscow on 26 April 2022.conflict, according to the Kremlin, in what would be the UN chief’s first trip to Russia in more than two years.
. Guterres has previously criticised Moscow’s war on Ukraine but Ukraine’s foreign ministry said meeting Putin now “does not advance the cause of peace” and “damages the UN’s reputation”. Asked at a briefing in New York whether Guterres was intending to travel to Kazan later this week, a spokesperson said: “Announcements on his future travels will be later on down the line.”
It would be a “dangerous and highly concerning development” if North Korea was sending troops to help Russia in Ukraine, the US said on Monday as South Korea and Britain warned of the high price Moscowin Russia’s far east to begin training and some degree of participation in the war in Ukraine. “They represent the first element of what could be a 12,000-strong, four-brigade deployment,” he writes.
South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest “in the strongest terms” about the reported dispatch of thousands of North Korean troops to help Russia in its war against Ukrainethat South Korea’s first vice-foreign minister, Kim Hong-kyun, told the Russian envoy, Georgy Zinoviev, that the participation of North Korean troops in the war violated UN resolutions and demanded their immediate withdrawal.
. The 52 lawmakers said that since the invasion in February 2022, SLB has signed new contracts, recruited hundreds of staff, and imported nearly $18m in equipment into Russia. “This US-based company is keeping Vladimir Putin’s war machine well-oiled with financing for the barbaric invasion of Ukraine.
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